JavaScript Developer Contracts in England

JavaScript Developer
UK > England

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 454 432
Rank change year-on-year +7 -22 -85
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 38 88 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.24% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 68 205
10th Percentile £328 £325 £400
25th Percentile £375 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £508 £588 £713
90th Percentile £619 £670 £800
UK median daily rate £405 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -19.00% -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.50
75th Percentile £25.75 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £40.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -36.25% -38.93% +69.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in England

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in England

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in England

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in England

JavaScript Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -2 22 £511 -2.62% 38
North of England +20 11 £400 -11.11% 27
North West +18 9 £400 -11.11% 14
Midlands +23 2 £260 - 20
North East - 2 £350 - 6
South East +42 1 - - 32
East Midlands +10 1 £270 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £250 - 12
JavaScript Developer
UK

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 23 (60.53%) React
3 19 (50.00%) CSS
4 18 (47.37%) HTML
5 17 (44.74%) Git
6 16 (42.11%) AWS
7 14 (36.84%) Node.js
7 14 (36.84%) Agile
8 13 (34.21%) Python
8 13 (34.21%) Front End Development
9 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
9 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
9 11 (28.95%) Finance
10 10 (26.32%) Java
10 10 (26.32%) AngularJS
10 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
10 10 (26.32%) Docker
10 10 (26.32%) RESTful
11 9 (23.68%) Vue
11 9 (23.68%) C#
11 9 (23.68%) Linux
11 9 (23.68%) Banking
12 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
12 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
12 8 (21.05%) Flask
12 8 (21.05%) HTML5
12 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
12 8 (21.05%) Rust
13 7 (18.42%) Systematic Trading
13 7 (18.42%) Pandas

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) nginx
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (10.53%) GitHub
3 4 (10.53%) Serverless
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) npm
6 1 (2.63%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (5.26%) GIS
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
1 2 (5.26%) ObjectStore
1 2 (5.26%) Redis
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) webpack
3 5 (13.16%) Babel
3 5 (13.16%) Mocha
4 3 (7.89%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.26%) ESLint
5 2 (5.26%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) gulp
6 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.63%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Mockito
6 1 (2.63%) Postman
6 1 (2.63%) Selenium
6 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Electronics
6 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (60.53%) React
2 19 (50.00%) CSS
3 18 (47.37%) HTML
4 14 (36.84%) Node.js
5 10 (26.32%) AngularJS
5 10 (26.32%) RESTful
6 9 (23.68%) Vue
7 8 (21.05%) Flask
7 8 (21.05%) HTML5
8 7 (18.42%) .NET
8 7 (18.42%) FastAPI
8 7 (18.42%) Jest
8 7 (18.42%) NumPy
8 7 (18.42%) Pandas
8 7 (18.42%) Polars
8 7 (18.42%) REST
8 7 (18.42%) SciPy
9 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
9 4 (10.53%) Sass
10 3 (7.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (18.42%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.63%) Derivative
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) iSeries
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) Front End Development
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
4 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) Clean Code
5 7 (18.42%) Mathematics
5 7 (18.42%) Structured Programming
5 7 (18.42%) Systematic Trading
5 7 (18.42%) TDD
6 6 (15.79%) Code Quality
6 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.79%) Web Development
7 5 (13.16%) API Development
7 5 (13.16%) B2B
8 4 (10.53%) DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Microservices
8 4 (10.53%) User Experience
9 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (34.21%) Python
3 10 (26.32%) Java
3 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 9 (23.68%) C#
5 8 (21.05%) Rust
6 7 (18.42%) C++
7 2 (5.26%) PHP
8 1 (2.63%) Bash
8 1 (2.63%) RPG
8 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) WCAG
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Mapbox
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) Foundry
4 1 (2.63%) Palantir
4 1 (2.63%) Veracode
4 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media